Eric Manley

Professor of Computer Science
Co-Director of Data Analytics
Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
Drake University

Collier-Scripps Hall 327

2702 Forest Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311

News

4 January, 2025 - We are hosting the 2025 CCSC Central Plains Conference April 4-5

5 November, 2024 - Drake is hiring Assistant Professors of Practice in Data Analytics to support the Qingdao-Drake United College

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Projects

SegBuilder: A Semi-automatic Annotation Tool for Segmentation
SegBuilder: A Semi-automatic Annotation Tool for Segmentation

SegBuilder is a web-based tool that leverages unsupervised segmentation models for semantic segmentation annotation.

Getting Started with Large Language Models for the CS Curriculum
Getting Started with Large Language Models for the CS Curriculum

A workshop introducing Large Language Models and the Hugging Face NLP libraries for CS educators wanting to include LLM content in their curriculum, either as a standalone course or integrated into existing courses.

Nifty Assignment: Making an Interactive Visualization Dashboard with Live Data
Nifty Assignment: Making an Interactive Visualization Dashboard with Live Data

A Nifty Assignment in which students use data retrieved from a Web API and use it to display an interactive data visualization in Python.

Dash: An easy-to-use framework for building web applications and dashboards
Dash: An easy-to-use framework for building web applications and dashboards

Dash is a low-code Python framework for creating web-based applications and visualization dashboards. This workshop introduces the framework for CS educators who would like to incorporate it in CS1 or CS2.

Movie Review Sentiment Analysis Nift Assignment
Movie Review Sentiment Analysis Nift Assignment

A Nifty Assignment where students use Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews to build a predictor for positive/negative sentiment of text

Easy Handwriting Recognition Nifty Assignment
Easy Handwriting Recognition Nifty Assignment

A Nifty Assignment where students create a Java GUI for drawing digits and recognize them using a CS1-accessible machine learning algorithm